EMILY BRONTE

30 JULY 1818-19 DECEMBER 1848

PRESENTATION BY ILIYANA VARNEVA
 BIRTH AND DEATH

• Emily was born on 30 July 1818 in

the town of Thornton , Yorkshire of
England. Her parents are Patrick
Bronte a reverend and Maria
Branwell. They have 6 children
( Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte,
Patrick, Emily and Anne) she was
their fifth.
• Emily died on 19 December 1848 of
tuberculosis
 BRONTE’S CHILDHOOD
• In 1824 the family moved to Haworth where
Emily’s father was perpetual curate( resident
parish priest). Her mother died of cancer when
Emily was only three. In 1824 Emily goes to study
in Clergy Daughter’s Scholl at Cowan Bridge for
one year. When a typhoid epidemic infects the
school Maria and Elizabeth fall ill and died shortly
after. Emily was taken home to be homeschooled
by her father’s sister Elizabeth. At seventeen Emily
began to attend the Roe Head Girl’s School where
Charlotte was a teacher but left after only a few
months.
 THE MAGICAL KINGDOM OF ANGRIA

• Using a couple of toy soldiers and

the creativity they developed from
reading multiple novels provided
by their father , Emily and siblings
created Angria. Writing the stories
and poems of Angria were a way
for Emily to express her feelings
toward human conditions.
 SHIFT TO GONDAL

• At the age of 13 Emily and Anne started their

own world, Gondal. The stories of Gondal were
about reckless royalty, political secrecy, love
abandoned, wars, murders and assassinations that
all take place on an imaginary island in the North
Pacific called Gondal.
 ADULTHOOD
• Emily become a teacher at Law Hill School in
Halifax beginning in September 1838.
Unfortunately, the 17-hour work was to much for
her and she returned to home after a year. In 1842
Emily accompanied her sister Charlotte to a Girls
Academy run by Constantin Hager. There they
improved their French and German. They get a
job offer at the school, but they returned home
after their aunt Elizabeth died. They tried to open
their school in their home but is not success.
 WORK

• Pen name: Ellis Bell

• The only novel: ”Wuthering
Heights” 1847
• Poems by Currer, Ellis and
Acton Bell
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!